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Great.  Arlington County, one of the most educated and wealthiest counties in America will operate their high schools like Rwanda.  All because the County Board and the School Board don't communicate with each other.[/quote]

Not only because of that, but because parents aren't willing to compromise or face reality. They want the schools they remember growing up (single-stories, sprawling next to acres of open space), they want more instructional time and materials (must have FLES! must have 1:1 devices!), and they want the 85% of the county with no children to take whatever hits -- taxes, open space -- are necessary to make that happen. [/quote]

You better believe I'm not going to compromise! No f***ing way is my kid, or anyone's kid, going to be forced to go to night school because you don't want more traffic, taxes, whatever the f*** you want to complain about. The kids are here, and are residents of Arlington, same as you, and same as your kids were back in the day. They don't deserve less because you can't afford to live here any longer unless we keep your taxes low. Don't like it? Sell your house for $900,000 and move to Sun City and you never need see another rug rat again. [/quote]

Quoting myself to retract my hot-headed earlier post. What I mean is, [b]everyone[/b] (including HB, and seniors who don't want their community centers touched or taxes raised) needs to compromise. It should not fall only on the backs of the kids who have the misfortune of being born here during a population explosion, and the second misfortune of not winning a lottery to a choice program that is being kept small and pristine while everyone else has to deal with the problem. We are a community, and everybody is going to have to give a little so that our community remains the vibrant, attractive place it is now. It's unreasonable to demand that only those families who have kids coming up through this crisis need compromise. You want us to help you age in place? Well, there are strings attached to that. You can't have everything the way it once was either, because Arlington has changed. So, yes, maybe we can't have the sprawling campuses of days gone by, but we hardly need accept that kids and staff will be in school year-round and at all time of the day in shifts because you don't want more traffic in your neighborhood. [/quote]

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